weatherking2019 wrote: »

My intention was:
I'm 47, 5'2" and currently 108, 19.4%
Totally DETERMINED to maintain this!😎

But reality is 111, 20.4% on 12/2.
Indulged a bit over the holidays- Back to watch what I am feeding myself and burning the calories!

This is me too. Trying to maintain, but holiday happened.

It's the 3rd day of the challenge.
This thought wall might be a little late for some of you.
We just had a holiday. And for me, since it means my DH (dear hubby) was off work, it meant off plan for several days.

There's always a little struggle, even almost 4 years out from reaching goal, around holidays. I know from experience, and there's even a thread to this effect in the MF (Main Forum), that one "refeed" day isn't going to ruin everything. And it really doesn't. Does it mean you're going to get to your goal a few days later than you originally had anticipated? Maybe does; maybe doesn't. If it delays a bit, is that the end of the universe? Nope. Because we don't gain weight or become obese or lose progress because we feast on a holiday. It's when we get loose and then start treating most days like holidays when we get in trouble. This is truth: if you get right back to business and back to your consistency right away, you'll be just fine.

This applies to me as I feel a little bloaty from carb-associated water retention. Part of me still wants to freak out. But the habit-part of me that has done and done this, knows that today I'm right back on plan, doing the thing, as per my usual. The bloat will go, and life will go on.

All I'm trying to do this month is workout a little extra to mitigate the Thanksgiving Black Hole thanks to DH, and keep my Consistency Habit chugging along despite all the opportunities that will come along to potentially bomb my plan. Like Friday, I have to bake a BAZILLION cookies for a church event on Saturday. I will not get into the cookies. They are not for me. On Saturday I may have something, as that's how my calorie/carb-cycling plan works for my maintenance. But Friday, I will be resolute.

I don't usually work out on the weekends, as I workout every weekday. But I'll probably add at least one weekend day to help offset the aforementioned Black Hole.

Lots of crap to do this week for me including the last class of the semester long Health class I've taught to homeschooled highschoolers. Teens are as silly as preschoolers sometimes. I could seriously use an eye-roll emoji, MFP. It's been 5 years, guys.

Anyway,
TLDR; Thanksgiving is a calorie-bomb wrecking ball, but if we indulged, we just get back to work and everything will be just fine.

But of course I'm not weighing till Friday cuz I AM sporting a wee tire around my middle from carb-water.

weatherking2019 wrote: »

@al4374 I just did that with the Banana bread I made for the family. I didn't even think of it when I ate the end piece! It was sooo goood, if I say so myself!

But back to "watching" what I eat. I just want to lose a bit I gained over the holiday so it can't be that hard, right??

Does it take persistence and consistency? Definitely.
Hard? Maybe a little, if we're talking about shushing the cravings. And needing to be patient.
Worth it?

al4374 wrote: »

@baconslave the mental struggle is real. Amazing how hard it is to rewire our brains from that all-or-nothing thinking that says “I had an off day I’m ruined forever”

And yes baking yummy carby things for others and not tasting any of it takes a lot of self control. Especially when you’re like- “I have to! How can I give them away without tasting ? what if they came out gross”
**eats batch of cookies** 😬

This is what my kids are for, particularly my human-vacuum-cleaner teen son. I don't have to beg them to taste one. More like I have to get out the broom to keep them out of the baked goods so there'll be enough left to bring!